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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said he’s working on a plan that would shut down international flights that land at airports in sanctuary jurisdictions — a move to pressure anti-ICE politicians. Mr. Mullin confirmed the idea, which he reportedly raised with travel executives last week, in an interview Tuesday on Fox News’ “Hannity” program. “We’re currently drawing up plans to say listen, these sanctuary cities where the local radical left Democrats aren’t allowing us to do our job and enforce federal laws, then we shouldn’t be processing international flights into their cities, either,” the secretary said. He stressed the idea…

LONGVIEW, Wash. — A massive chemical tank holding nearly a million gallons of a highly corrosive liquid imploded and collapsed Tuesday at a Washington paper mill, killing at least one worker and leaving nine others unaccounted for with no hope for rescue, authorities said. Another nine people were injured, some severely, in the spill at Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. in Longview. The cause remained unclear. “At the moment we are not aware of any rescues that are yet to be made,” Cowlitz Fire and Rescue Chief Scott Goldstein said during a Tuesday evening news conference in which officials repeatedly referred…

Federal safety rules prohibit prescribing the abortion drug mifepristone to terminate pregnancies after 10 weeks’ gestation, but that’s not stopping the booming online abortion-pill business. A report released Tuesday by the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute found 81% of online providers that report their data will ship abortion drugs to women whose pregnancies exceed 70 days’ gestation, a violation of the Food and Drug Administration safety protocol. That’s not all. The report found that eight companies mail mifepristone to states in defiance of their abortion restrictions, such as prohibitions on using telehealth to prescribe the pills and mail them directly to…

PORTLAND, Maine — The fire and subsequent explosion at a Maine lumber mill that killed a firefighter and injured a dozen other people was accidental and originated at the base of a silo, authorities said Tuesday. The May 15 fire and explosion at Robbins Lumber in Searsmont killed Andrew Cross, 27, of the Morrill Volunteer Fire Department. The injured people include members of the family that runs the lumber mill and other emergency responders. The fire sent plumes of black smoke into the sky and required hundreds of firefighters from dozens of departments to suppress it. Rapid ignition of particulate…

PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A Michigan house explosion early Tuesday left one person dead and one in critical condition, authorities said. Authorities have not yet determined what caused the fire and explosion, which happened around 4 a.m. in Plainfield Township, north of Grand Rapids. When authorities arrived, the home was destroyed and the debris was on fire, according to the Kent County Sheriff’s Office. One person was dead. Two neighbors pulled a woman out of the home after hearing her yelling. “I had to get in there and get her out,” one of the neighbors, Tim Johnson, told WOOD-TV. He…

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Clarence B. Jones, a former speechwriter and confidante of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who helped pen his famous “I Have A Dream” speech, has died. He was 95. Jones died Friday at a senior living community in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Cupertino, according to a statement released by the family, who was at his side. “Our father lived a life of conscience,” the Jones’ family said Tuesday. “He believed, until his final days, that an idea” is “more powerful than the march of any army. We are grateful beyond words for…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The head of Puerto Rico’s key economic development agency announced his resignation on Tuesday as he criticized the U.S. territory’s administration of Jenniffer González, accusing it of interfering in the department’s work. The departure of Sebastián Negrón Reichard from the powerful Department of Economic Development and Commerce comes at a critical moment for Puerto Rico as it seeks to revive its economy and attract wealthy investors. Negrón Reichard noted in his statement that more than 10 officials with leadership roles at the agency – including its chief of staff, general counsel and the finance chief…

Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs is facing five criminal charges, including strangulation and suffocation, after police responded to a disturbance complaint involving him over the weekend. Hobart/Lawrence (Wisconsin) Police Chief Michael Renkas said that Jacobs was arrested Tuesday and booked into Brown County Jail on charges of strangulation and suffocation, battery-domestic abuse, criminal damage to property-domestic abuse, disorderly conduct-domestic abuse and intimidation of a victim. Renkas said police had been dispatched to a complaint involving Jacobs on Saturday at 8:37 a.m. “This remains an active and ongoing investigation,” Renkas said in a statement. “No further information will be…

Police have arrested a man who was rescued from a smoking chimney at a boarded-up house in Washington state. The house in Everett, Washington, northeast of Seattle, had “no trespassing” signs on the property. Neighbors reported smoke coming from the chimney of the house at roughly 8:30 a.m. local time Monday, the Everett Police Department said. Police said upon their arrival, officers heard the accused trespasser and saw the smoke. The man, whom police did not publicly name, refused to come out, and officers tried going in the front door. Simultaneously, the police said, the man climbed out of a…

A man died and a woman ended up hospitalized with a hip injury after the two collided while skydiving over Washington state. On Saturday afternoon, a group of 11 took part in a jump organized by Skydive West Plains, based in Ritzville, Washington, 200 miles southeast of Seattle. As they fell, jumpers Randy Hubbs and Nicole Klein collided, which knocked Mr. Hubbs out and left him “no longer in control of his parachute canopy,” the Adams County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook. Skydive West Plains staff, watching the scene from a vantage point about 500 feet above ground level, saw…